Primary School

Welcome to art!

For art at home please see if you have these materials or if your parents can purchase these items next time they go to the store:

Pencils with erasers: They can be mechanical

Colored pencils pack with lots of colors

Watercolors: Crayola brand or better

Inexpensive variety paint brushes for watercolors

(made of hair, NOT nylon!)

Blank paper for drawing (Printer paper is fine)

Watercolor paper pad (optional but worth it!)

Pencil sharpener if needed

School Glue

Scissors

THE FOLLOWING PROJECTS WILL ALSO BE MADE AVAILABE IN THE GOOGLE CLASSROOM

Here are some great practice projects to sharpen your artistic skills!

Tutorial: Colored Pencil

Color a picture in colored pencil with shading

How to color LIKE A BOSS

Great video on shading with colored pencils

Practice shading a spectrum

Practice shading using colors that are next to each other on the color wheel to create neat shadows and 3D effects. You can use any coloring sheet that you would like or you can print one of the sheets attached if you have access to a printer.

When shading your coloring sheet, you will be using colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. For the first part of the assignment, I would like you to draw a long rectangle and then fill it in with a rainbow of color. Please see the "Spectrum Example" I have attached. Follow this step by step guide and fill in your rainbow! Notice that the colors sort of blend together, make sure that you blend them together and do not leave any harsh lines where one color ends and the other color begins. Your colors should overlap to create the blending.

After you have finished making a blended rainbow you may begin the assignment. First, choose a coloring sheet, draw a picture, or print one of the sheets that I have attached. Start by choosing a color for your coloring sheet, such as yellow. Begin by coloring the picture yellow and then add shading by either using greens or oranges, since green and orange are both next to yellow on the color wheel. By using the neighboring colors you will be able to transition to a darker color in a way that looks artistic and professional!

For this assignment you will need: Colored pencils, a coloring page and a pencil sharpener.

Coloring pages you can print:

Cute Monkey

Peacock

Outer Space Pizza

Crazy Squares

Sun and Moon

Watercolor Fun!

Tutorial: Watercolors

 Try creating a watercolor sky scene

Below are some fun videos on how to watercolor these scenes!

For this project you will need:

Watercolors

A few brushes in different sizes

Thick or watercolor paper (this will not work very well on regular computer paper)

White and black acrylic paints (for the stars, moon and shadow fugiures)

**Brushes: Use watercolor brushes or brushes that are really soft when you brush them on your finger. These brushes hold lots of water and won't rip your paper when it is wet.

Starry forest tutorial

 To create stars you will need white acrylic paint (not watercolor!)

If you have a Pinterest account then you can watch this nice sunset

Acrylic Painting

Acrylic Painting Practice

I know that not everyon will have access to paints and thick paper at home. But if you do then check out these awesome videos and maybe give it a try!

Here are some inspiration videos to help you learn to paint at home:

How to blend acrylic paints

Power lines at sunset

Sunset and Mountains

Rainbow Tree



Drawing and colored pencil

Animal Word Play!

Check out these adorable illustrations of everyday words and fun imaginations that have been turned into animals!

Take a look at these illustrations by Piper Thibodeau and look up some more of her work online! Try creating your own animal word plays or try to draw some of her creations!

Have fun and be creative!

Here's a list of words to inspire you:

Rattle Snake

Pack of Wolves

Lady Bug

Hot Dog

Corn Snake

Crab Apples

Diamondback

Shampoodle

Lavendeer

Busy Bee

Find more in your Google Classroom

The Dandelion

Dino-mite!

Hoarder Collie

(The dog is a border collie and they heard sheep)

The Turtle Burger

Tabbyasco

(Like Tabasco the hot sauce)